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BREAKING NEWS: the daily mail’s report on zac efron’s sunday in skid row
so i was winding down the writing of an update on macaulay culkin’s love life when… WHAT?!?!?!?! let’s break it down… oh, but wait, before we break it down, first let’s get ourselves geared up with...
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now that mila kunis is engaged, macaulay’s abandoned the burritos to race to...
and where were we, before zac efron interrupted… oh yeah. mac. if you’ve been around here with any regularity in the last year, you know i’m rather taken with the daily mail‘s accounts of macaulay...
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girl fight! (ie. the resurfacing of the ‘victoria beckham really wants to be...
so i was going to put this at the end of that post about the kanye/kim vogue, as a jab at the idea that vogue (u.s. edition) isn’t still an exclusive dream world. and then i didn’t because, frankly,...
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why harry has to marry RIGHT NOW (cressida = fergie + prince = 1980/81 redux)
is this a new cultural (ie. daily mail) trend? this recent glut of Guys Who’ve Got To Get Married RIGHTNOW… last week it was Guys Who’ve Got To Get Married RIGHTNOW… macaulay culkin edition. this week...
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an ode to elizabeth taylor’s headdress (ie. every findable photograph of The...
so i wasn’t even thinking about liz taylor at all, which is a rare occurrence as i feel she’s rather one of those people who should always be on the mind… if only when one applies eye make-up because,...
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finding jackie (the initial articulation of my philosophy of ‘life-reading’...
jackie evades me. i’ve been writing about her for ten years and she has never seemed so unclear as now. this is obvious in my work lately, wherein everyone around her seems vividly alive, jockeying to...
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jackie’s pink suit (ie. things are getting weird, ya’ll)
this post may not amount to anything more than a prolonged exclamation of LOOKIT THIS IS BIZARRE!!! accompanied by pretty pictures, most of them in glorious technicolor… but around the 50th anniversary...
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‘marilyn monroe reading’ (hey, let’s murder this phrase)
so i woke up this morning and saw this: and was- despite a years-long familiarity with the photographs of marilyn monroe reading- for the first time, irrationally infuriated by it. maybe that’s...
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george clooney is getting married
so as you may or may not have heard, mr. and mrs. nick clooney are gearing up to go to the engravers because their son, george, is getting hitched to amal alamuddin. AND WE ARE ALL AMAZED. because he’s...
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macaulay culkin: “healthier and happier”
as you may or may not know, i am OBSESSED with the way the daily mail reports about macaulay culkin. well, actually, i’m obsessed with the way the daily mail writes about anyone but i am particularly...
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one last thought re: clooney getting married
this relationship roll-out is weird, non? why are all these details slipping out?? that she played hard to get. that he’s going to be in london more. that he got down on bended knee to propose. that...
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my life with jackie
i’ve recently been writing about mary barrelli gallagher’s 1969 memoir, entitled my life with jacqueline kennedy. really, that could be the subtitle of every biographer’s life, non? my life with X....
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an update on what macaulay culkin has been up to this past fortnight
so i leave england for a hot second and this happens… apparently, based on the number of macaulay culkin stories now posted on my facebook wall, when people i know see macaulay culkin they now think of...
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a vitally necessary, terribly belated analysis of what sad keanu might mean
OHMYGODYOUGUYS. epiphany. how have we never talked about sad keanu?? how have i been going on and on about how the daily mail is super weird on macaulay culkin and how george clooney’s engagement was...
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bang on (jackie, dead people’s sex lives and: america, WHY?!)
so jackie’s in the news again, maybe you heard? and not for the father leonard letters either… and my personal favorite…right. because it wasn’t enough for her to have slept with bobby. now we gotta...
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FLOTUS’s speech @ maya angelou’s memorial = phenomenal
transcript here.Filed under: "women", FEMINISM, first ladies, FLOTUS, maya angelou, michelle obama
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checking in with george clooney’s fiancee, wedding planner
we saw this coming, no? am i an idiot for entertaining the hope that the daily mail might write about this woman in her own right? is it naive of me to have been bothered by the fact that- because...
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totally random gossip nostalgia trip: tom cruise + nicole kidman edition
so it was a long week and i’d an ear infection and wound up spending the majority of saturday in a swoon state watching far and away. which reminded me why i <3 tommy cruise (in spite of himself)...
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i was recently reminded of something of which we should all be aware: hunter...
Filed under: sir ian mckellen
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dolled up (paper dolls as underestimated pedagogical tool, kermit roosevelt =...
when i was a little girl, i was obsessed with paper dolls. because they typically involved pretty people in pretty clothes. (or at least they did the way i opted to consume them. the possibilities...
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